John Walker Lindh, the American who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today after sobbing through a 14-minute statement in which he repudiated terrorism, condemned Osama bin Laden and tried to explain why he...

They are mostly the faces of men now dead: wild-haired Taliban fighters sitting in rows, their arms tied at the elbow behind their backs, shown on videotape minutes before one of the most desperate battles of the war in Afghanistan. These are the...

The government painted a chilling portrait of John Walker Lindh this week, describing him in pretrial motions as someone who bears some responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks and for the death of Johnny Micheal Spann, a Central Intelligence Agency...

Government prosecutors acknowledged today that they had no evidence linking John Walker Lindh, the American whom they accuse of fighting for the Taliban, with the death of any American, including Johnny Micheal Spann, the C.I.A. officer killed in an...

Two fathers crossed paths at a federal courthouse here today, one whose son was the first American killed by the enemy in Afghanistan and one whose son is the only American who stands accused of joining that enemy. In a crowded hallway, Frank...

The former wife of Johnny Michael Spann, a C.I.A. officer killed in Afghanistan five weeks ago, has died of cancer, leaving their two young daughters as orphans. The former wife, Kathryn King, who grew up in northwestern Alabama, died on Friday...

Administration officials said today that John Walker, the American who was captured in Afghanistan, would probably face at least one charge that would carry the death penalty, and President Bush linked Mr. Walker directly with the terrorist group Al...

Shortly before he left for Afghanistan, Johnny Micheal Spann sent an e-mail message to his parents back in Winfield, Ala. ''What everyone needs to understand is these fellows hate you,'' wrote Mr. Spann, a Central Intelligence Agency officer....

Praised by his boss as ''an American hero'' and by his widow as one who ''didn't separate serving his country from serving his family,'' Johnny Micheal Spann, an intelligence agent who was the first American killed by the enemy in Afghanistan, was...

Remarkably, an Afghan cameraman videotaped the C.I.A. officer Johnny Michael Spann as he tried to interrogate the young American Taliban fighter, John Walker, in a prison in Mazar-i-Sharif. Shortly afterward, Mr. Spann was killed in the prison...